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Software: Samtools

Description

Samtools is a set of utilities for the Sequence Alignment/Map (SAM) format.

Available Versions

Available Versions
Unspecified: 1.15 1.16 1.17 1.9

For more information, please check its website: https://biocontainers.pro/tools/samtools and its home page on Github.

Commands

  • samtools
  • ace2sam
  • htsfile
  • maq2sam-long
  • maq2sam-short
  • tabix
  • wgsim

Module

You can load the modules by:

module load biocontainers
module load samtools

Example job

Using #!/bin/sh -l as shebang in the slurm job script will cause the failure of some biocontainer modules. Please use #!/bin/bash instead.

To run Samtools on our clusters:

#!/bin/bash
#SBATCH -A myallocation     # Allocation name 
#SBATCH -t 1:00:00
#SBATCH -N 1
#SBATCH -n 1
#SBATCH --job-name=samtools
#SBATCH --mail-type=FAIL,BEGIN,END
#SBATCH --error=%x-%J-%u.err
#SBATCH --output=%x-%J-%u.out

module --force purge
ml biocontainers samtools